See Microprocessor Forum Presentation: Diamond 388VDO Dual Core Video Decoder/Encoder (PDF)

Main Profile Video Encoder and Decoder

The Diamond Standard 388VDO Video Engine is customized for multi-standard, multi-resolution video in SOC designs. Targeted at mobile handsets and personal media players (PMPs), the Diamond Standard 388VDO supports the following video standards:

Resolutions up to 720x480 (NTSC) and 720x576 (PAL) are supported, as are lower resolutions including QCIF, QVGA, CIF and VGA.

Tensilica supplies both the hardware (in RTL) and the software codecs for the Diamond Standard 388VDO Video Engine. Tensilica also provides a complete matching software development tool-chain including an advanced integrated development environment based on the ECLIPSE framework, a world-class compiler, a cycle-accurate SystemC-compatible instruction set simulator, and the full industry standard GNU toolchain. In addition, Tensilica's wide partner network provides operating systems, debug probes, ICE solutions, and other support needed to help get Tensilica's processores designed in quickly.

Features

• Video codec processor for consumer entertainment devices
• Fully software programmable in C/C++
• Rich software tool chain
• Supported by a library of most common codecs
• Capable of encode and decode in real time
• Optimized for block-based codecs
• Very low power, low area
• Simulation model with video test streams available for evaluation and software development
• FPGA prototype availablef or demonstration and evaluation

Benefits

• One engine for all codecs
• Programmable for new or changing standards
• Low power and small area footprint is ideal for portable and mobile applications
• Pre-packaged, ready to drop-in module for easy integration into SOC designs
• Custom video specific instructions for better code density and fewer cycles.

Turnkey Video for SOC Designs

The Diamond Standard 388VDO Video Engine hosts all the key video processing functions in software on the cores - including the network abstraction layer, slice layer, bit-stream parsing and entropy decoding and encoding.

An Advanced Architecture Optimized for Video

Please click here for more information on the architecture behind the Diamond Standard 388VDO processor.

See the Diamond Standard 388VDO product brief.

Performance Summary